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SUNDAY, 8 JANUARY 1967
Monday is a perfectly normal day.
You've got about two thousand more of them. Count them.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- You say "it's not that deep" a lot. Your Notes app has 300 entries…
- Your out-of-office reply is the most confident thing you wrote all year. Nobody noticed…
- You "grew out of" your old friends. They grew out of waiting for you…
- The award show ran four hours. The only winner was the advert break.
- Wisdom comes with age. So does standing on the landing with no idea why…
- Both parties say this is the most important election of your lifetime. They said…
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